July 5
In 1986, Janet Jackson scored her first No.1 on the Billboard 200 with her third album, Control. The LP, which marked her commercial breakthrough, established Jackson as a force in pop and R&B music and marked her first release with her longtime collaborators, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Control featured a record-breaking five Top 5 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including “Nasty,” “When I Think of You,” and “What Have You Done for Me Lately,” while the Grammy-nominated album remained on the US charts for more than two years. Today, it remains a definitive title in the American pop canon.